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The mistress's daughter

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected.Read more...

Reviews

Editorial reviews

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"* 'Very few writers push the envelope with such style and confidence' Mark Haddon * 'There have been very few women writers like Homes. This prose has teeth' Zadie Smith * 'A deeply moral chronicler of her contemporary America' Ali Smith, Guardian"Read more...